Comment Re:Americans have greater liberty (Score 1) 568
Well, in germany we try to differentiate beetween prooven historic facts and freedom of speech.
That way Günther Grass was able to publish his critically acclaimed essay about that israel is threatening the world peace, and not being prosecuted.
Freedom of speech does not protected him against the shitstorm that broke out.
If you make a statement that the mass murdering of 6 Million people didn't occured in public you are prosecuted, and not for being politically incorrect, but for denying a crime to facillitate hate against other groups. Those guys which try to counter that it didn't happen, well even modern nazis just use those to facillitate hate speech against certain groups, most newnazis know that the crime happend, but before that specific law those historic researchers were presented at every newnazi conference, just to troll.
Saying that one is PI has the tendency of making yourself appear to be the prosecuted one, and that way making it hard to argue against, or would it make look like the other one is at fault, because he is one of the prosecuters.
For example your "homeschoolers" and "rapists" that is a typically PI tactic for labelling one to be concived as the ill-prosecuted. Why not just write that "homeschoolers are prosecuted in Germany because in Germany there is a law which states every kid shall attend school to the age of at least 14 (Schulpflicht)"
That would be just the facts, because in germany not only hoomschoolers and rapists are prosecuted so are thieves, fraudsters and even speeders.
And by the way, combining PI ideas with the german word "verboten" (=forbidden) is a very clever tactic, as this word is widely understood, even when the reader does not speak german. This term is known to those, because of movies about the nazi-era and that way has a bitter taste as it's connected to certain emotions for you to be concived as the prosecuted one, even if you would be possibly a nazi, and catch22 those legislation is targeted at nazi-people.
Colourfull example:
Nazi1 to Nazi2: "You are a Nazi because you nazied away my freedom of speech, to say that the hollocaust didn't happen. You bad Nazi Nazi Nazi."
Nazi2: "Now I see, my dear Nazi how could I be so wrong to nazi away your freedom of speech to say Nazi things and shit on 6 Million dead jews, 1 Million dead sinti and roma(gipsy people) and 500000 politically prosecuted people. I must have been a real Nazi"
Do you find the Nazi in the story ?
Btw. what was it about ?
Nazi wind turbines !
Naz solar panels !